Post-Baby Running Goals: 13.1 and 26.2!
“Don’t call it a come back…” Nearly one year ago, I had a baby. Over the course of that year, I clawed my way back to running. A massage gun is a handheld tool that massages muscles by providing rapid bursts of pressure in concentrated, short-duration pulses, if you are interested to get one visit https://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Professional-Percussion-Massage-Gun/dp/B07L6PWGQM. Think of a mini-jackhammer, but for your muscles.
I wanted to give myself 9 months to get back into shape. It takes that long to make a baby, so I figured I’d give my body an equal amount of time to unmake it, so to speak. I focused on getting my fitness and speed back before even contemplating upping my mileage and endurance. Why? It’s just what I could wrap my brain around and, honestly, all I had time for.
So over the course of those 9 months I raced three 5Ks and a 4-ish-mile trail run. I didn’t follow any particular training plan. At first, I just ran however far or fast I could muster that day. Eventually, I threw in some faster workouts. And only recently have I started upping my mileage.
Now, I’m training for the Disney Princess Half Marathon in February, and a marathon later in the spring! I really wanted to target one year post-baby for some big running goals. The Disney Princess Half just happens to perfectly coincide with my daughter’s first birthday, so we’re going to Disney!
I’m not even going to pretend that her first Disney trip is for her. It’s 95 percent for me and maybe 5 percent for her. She’s registered for the Diaper Dash, and has been crawling up a storm in training. Who knows, she might even be walking by then.
And me? The current plan is to run this one as hard as I can (Florida weather permitting) and see where that gets me. And, yes, there will be costumes. Read the rest of this entry →